Alameda: A Place for Foodies and Good Drink

A Rich Mix of Late Spring Diversions

BY PAUL DUCLOS Published: May, 2019   American Conservatory Theater  will continue staging the highly-acclaimed new production of Vanity Fair through May 12.   Playwright Kate Hamill’s rollicking new stage adaptation of William Thackeray’s classic 19th-century novel speaks to 21st-century concerns. Ambitious Becky Sharp may not have been “to the manor born,” but she’s bent […]

Around the bay in July 2011

Published: July, 2011  Ghostly Cruise Take a cruise on Sunday July 24 aboard the historic Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien from San Francisco to Suisun Bay’s Ghost Fleet, a collection of US Navy and merchant reserve ships created following World War II. In 2010 plans were announced to remove the Ghost Fleet in stages. The […]

Richmond’s East Brother – an Island Like No Other

Published: February, 2007  Its beacon is the East Brother Light Station, with a fully functional lighthouse, over 130 years old, which, now, also functions as a bed & breakfast inn and a unique location for a summer afternoon getaway. In the mid-1800s, it was determined a lighthouse was needed to safely guide ships through the […]